This documentation describes the concepts and techniques necessary for a technical professional to access and install the Ed-Fi Sample Data Generator.

Audience

This documentation is for technical professionals who work with education-data systems, primarily software developers, system integrators, and technical data analysts. Depending on needs and use cases for sample data, below are the two groups of intended users:

Technical Data Analysts. The Sample Data Generator can be run "as-is" as a utility using the command line. To effectively generate sample data, analysts should be comfortable with the Ed-Fi Data Standard, editing XML configuration files, and working with Ed-Fi bulk XML data.